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Year in producing retail – Emergency of the blockchain

[ad_2][ad_1] Traceability conversations accelerated in 2018, as more food-borne outbreaks were linked to fresh produce, including two more to Roman lettuce. Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety at Walmart and one of the most vocal advocates of technology as a means to improve traceability, this year will become deputy …

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Mining Bitcoin now burns more energy than producing precious metals, including gold – Hardware – Finance – Networking

[ad_1] The energy demands for mining four major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, has outstripped the energy costs of mining. Mining cryptocurrencies implying future complex calculations to confirm new transactions and add them to the decentralized ledger on which a cryptocurrency operates. It's a process that can be done on varying scales …

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Bitcoin mining now burns more energy than producing precious metals, including gold – Hardware – Finance – Networking

[ad_1] Energy demands for the extraction of four major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, outweighed the energy costs of extracting real metals such as gold and copper, according to US environmental researchers. Data mining cryptocurrencies involve increasingly complex calculations to confirm new transactions and add them to the decentralized accounting on which …

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